Re: [newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

2004-12-22 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Tue 2004-12-21 at 13:11:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Hi Bryan, pretty cool, the only thing I would suggest is using Damian Conways's Regexp::Common module in a Perl script to parse the IP address out. [...] #remove extra entries from

Re: [newbie] list etiquette - please, this is a question, so don't get any ideas about flames...:-)

2004-01-08 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Thu 2004-01-08 at 18:19:42 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how to do this in mozilla 1.5. I just thought that it had to be done manually... # *Keep the Reply-To setting empty* * Please keep you Reply-To field empty when emailing any email list. Somewhere in

Re: [newbie] free software frozen bubble Linus Torvalds

2003-09-13 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Mon 2003-09-01 at 05:18:33 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] He is, I think this is because of an arguement between RS and Linus whereby RS wanted linux henseforth refered to as GNU linux. (Thereby getting lots of publicity for GNU and RS..) Just to clarify. RMS does not want the Linux

Re: [newbie] free software frozen bubble Linus Torvalds

2003-09-13 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi! On Mon 2003-09-01 at 00:00:59 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was at the frozen bubble game site and there was this bit about free software: Free software is a very interesting (and important) concept. It was brought to mankind by Richard M. Stallman, the founder of the Free

Re: [newbie] ADSL again

2003-04-02 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Wed 2003-04-02 at 07:44:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nah...it is a fresh Mandrake 9.1-install where I have added both PPP and RP-PPPoE afterwards. RP-version is 3.5-3 which I downloaded from rpmfind.net. The only 3.5-3 I find there is for some PLD Linux Distribution. They seem to

Re: [newbie] ADSL again

2003-04-01 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Tue 2003-04-01 at 19:14:10 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, here we go, now I think I have located why RP-PPPoE doesn't work however it didn't get me anywhere, I installed PPP2.4.1, which doesn't seems to be installed by default and after some dependencyproblems I got it installed,

Re: [newbie] How do I terminate an ASDL connection?

2003-03-30 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sat 2003-03-29 at 12:25:06 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you look at this description you now know, why people prefer to refer to the shorter shell commands for giving advice. ;) Yes, too much on your part, I am sorry. No need to apalogize. This *is* the newbie-list, after all. My

Re: [newbie] Neverwinter Nights

2003-03-29 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Sat 2003-03-29 at 01:24:10 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, no one else has mentioned this, so... :-) Public beta number 3 of Neverwinter Nights is out, available from the Bioware web sight. You will have to register with them to be able to download though. Now. Does anyone

Re: [newbie] How do I terminate an ASDL connection?

2003-03-29 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sat 2003-03-29 at 08:01:08 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:30 pm, Frankie wrote: service internet stop try that.. Thank you, I have already, but service is not a Linux command. It is a valid command with Mandrake Linux. You have to be root to have it in

Re: [newbie] email showing up as attachments

2003-03-28 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2003-03-27 at 18:49:31 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, Does anyone know why some emails from the list are blank, with the text of the message in an attachment? Because the mail reader is too dumb to do something sensible with (MIME) multipart types it doesn't

Re: [newbie] Final or rc3?

2003-03-24 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Tue 2003-03-25 at 09:00:54 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake hasn't said yet. On Cooker, a few days ago they said 9.1 was final. For 9.0 they tricked people. They uploaded an RC then renamed it final. This may be what is happening here. The curious thing is that the CD's are all

Re: [newbie] Procmail Recipes

2003-03-16 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Sun 2003-03-16 at 00:03:07 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2003 10:53 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hey y'all - anyone remember that I posed a PROCMAILRC a while ago - well, as y'all know, all my mail went the way of the wind, and if anyone can blast me a copy of it

Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest

2003-03-16 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Sun 2003-03-16 at 00:01:29 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should be fine at 50C. If your memory is in 2 sticks, try taking one out. If it still crashes, switch them! If it's ok you've found your problem. I doubt it is a memory problem. I am no hardware expert but had my share of

Re: [newbie] problem upgrading to new usermode package?

2003-03-15 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hello. On Sat 2003-03-15 at 10:30:13 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't know much about shell scripting. anyone care to tell me what it is doing? $ rpm -qp --scripts usermode-1.42-8.2mdk.i586.rpm postinstall scriptlet (through /bin/sh): if [ ! -z $SECURE_LEVEL ];then if [ -x

Re: [newbie] Tar tumbling?

2003-03-08 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Sat 2003-03-08 at 12:31:26 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have a problem with my tar backups. Yes, you do have. ;) When I check the backed up information, I see: -rw-r--r--1 paul paul 10240 Mar 8 12:00 backup1.tar.gz -rw-r--r--1 paul paul

Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!

2003-03-07 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Fri 2003-03-07 at 17:03:31 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its all to do with the x. for a file it means the owner/group can execute that file. But for a directory, anybody in the group for that directory can delete any file in the root of that directory, even if the group permissions for

Re: [newbie] Installing RC2, never asked for CD2 or CD3

2003-03-05 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Wed 2003-03-05 at 17:38:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the installation of RC2, I am never prompted for CDs 2 or 3. Why is that?! Am I supposed to add the other two CDs with urpmi? No. You should be asked for CD2/CD3 during the package install (the part that takes most time

Re: [newbie] Unofficial February stats

2003-03-01 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sat 2003-03-01 at 16:40:07 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 3:34 pm, Todd Slater wrote: Most active posters 200 Robert Wideman 158 Anne Wilson Shucks - I'm still talking too much. I thought I'd been quieter lately. You just did it again.

Re: [newbie] What is sourcing?

2003-02-21 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hello. On Fri 2003-02-21 at 16:58:47 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I got some advise about a particular problem I have. Since I work with the bash shell and the advise seems to apply to ksh or csh, I would like to know how to translate the following: setenv IMAGINE_HOME

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sat 2003-02-15 at 22:48:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ There is nothing special about it. You have the same with Linux. Put in some install disk, choose rescue mode and you can access everything as root.

Re: [newbie] automatic filtering in Mozilla mail

2003-02-14 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2003-02-13 at 23:51:13 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to try out Mozilla's Bayesian filtering and it's working amazingly well. But, I can't find how to automatically run my filter when Mozilla checks for new mail--I end up having to manually do it. Surely I'm just not

Re: [newbie] Apache and PHP variables

2003-02-12 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Tue 2003-02-11 at 22:17:38 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so this is beyond the scope of a Mandrake forum, so forgive me for asking. I have transitioned my web server from Win2k to Linux. Everything seems to be working OK except I just noticed a page that is supposed to not show the

Re: [newbie] C++ question.

2003-02-12 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Wed 2003-02-12 at 00:06:24 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using the GNU gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk) to compile the program listed below. I get the compile time error: 23: field `cb' has incomplete type Can somebody please give me a hint on why the compiler

Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned

2003-02-12 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Aside from Tom's insighful comments[1], to set some facts straight... On Wednesday February 12 2003 01:09 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: [...] thing. In LM91 beta 3, to duplicate the functionality of one LM82 Rpmdrake UI instance, you must activate all four icon instances of rpmdrake listed in MCC.

Re: [newbie] unkillable process?

2003-02-12 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Wed 2003-02-12 at 14:22:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] what i'm doing: ps ax | grep process su (passwd) kill -s signal pid using all kinds of signals starting with sigterm, sigkill, Those two is all you need. kill -s TERM will ask the process to terminate (the process

Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned

2003-02-12 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Wed 2003-02-12 at 14:30:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] the most important feature of 8.2's rpmdrake was that you could see... right there in front of you... what files it would put where if you installed it. with rpmdrake in 9.0 it's not there. Choose maximum information. If it

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-10 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Mon 2003-02-10 at 17:31:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Ok, but how do you turn on number lines insise Emacs. If I've coding in Java and the compiler tells me I've got an OutOfBoundsException on line 4893 I don't want to have to count 1,2,3... from the top if the page, ya know?

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-08 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. From: Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08 Feb 2003 18:05:40 -0500 [...] Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.2.0 Remote-MTA: dns; linux-mandrake.com Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [64.8.50.181] [...]

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-08 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sat 2003-02-08 at 21:17:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 February 2003 08:59 pm, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: [...] Well, not exactly quietly. You did get a bounce, didn't you? The reason it takes 4-5 days to bounce is because your mail server (@adelphia.net) handles

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-08 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Please trim what you quote to the relevant part. On Sat 2003-02-08 at 22:58:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:59:42AM +0100, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: [...] Although they made the effort to list all the reverse lookups, they missed www.nic.de in their list. So

Re: [newbie] OT: Shorthand

2003-02-07 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Fri 2003-02-07 at 20:30:49 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To us Newbs acronyms are a PITA FWIW IMHO Really? Having had English as third language only in school, I had no particular trouble with acronyms when I first hit the internet - I had trouble with a lot of words, but acronyms where not

Re: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-07 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Fri 2003-02-07 at 00:31:22 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I have d'loaded two disk images from the Mandrake site, both are iso's, what exactly do I have to do to to make these iso's into somehtign I can use to boot off of for my mac? I tried doing it through Toast 5.0.2. But

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will

2003-02-06 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Thu 2003-02-06 at 14:56:31 -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 01:55 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: [...] Thx CM. Question: what are regular expressions ? And sed? Heard of it... but no clue what it is... I'll look it up later. The regular expressions has me stumped

Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?

2003-02-06 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2003-02-06 at 21:52:04 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] [root@rwideman2 boot]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 981M 138M 793M 15% / /dev/sda7 12G 2.7G 9.2G 23% /home /dev/sda6 3.9G 2.2G 1.6G

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Tue 2003-02-04 at 21:21:06 -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [... cool overview about available editors ...] If I am on a desktop and I need a quick edit, I usually grab for kedit, but any heavy work is emacs unless it is a sudoers file in which case a special variant of vi called visudo is

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sun 2003-02-02 at 21:03:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, thx Benjamin. On the bright side we've got a router up running. Well, a router doesn't protect against downloaded, trojaned applications. I'll work on him hopefully get him to see the error of his way. Tho that is hard

Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats

2003-02-03 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Mon 2003-02-03 at 21:36:15 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:25, Todd Slater wrote: [...] 403 Stephen Kuhn [...] Egads - I can't be THAT talkative, now can I? [...] Well, I considered to ask you that earlier, but regarding these numbers I cannot hold off myself any

Re: [newbie] RE: ACCOUNT REMOVAL

2003-02-02 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Sun 2003-02-02 at 11:36:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 February 2003 06:15 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: [...] Spamassassin thought so much of it that it routed the orig post to my Spam_Box. Hmm... doesn't like Hotmail, or has Spamassasin seen that 'handle' before?

Re: [newbie] mutt fetchmail

2003-02-02 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Sun 2003-02-02 at 21:09:20 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to set mutt to find mails that fetchmail pulls and puts somewhere I don't know where, I lost 30 mails allready :) System is Mdk9.0 I am not expert in this matter, but if the mail system is configured correctly, mutt

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-02 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Mon 2003-02-03 at 01:07:41 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: My b/f is a windows MCSE. Fine. In windows you run as root anyway. Even on 2k I run as an Admin. Now he says he sees no diff from that to running as Root in linux. That's quite correct. So, for the

Re: [newbie] Is there a way to Powerdown/Off the computer a =?iso-8859-1?q?la Winsucks=20with=20a=20cmd=20on=20the=20CLI=20or?= Gui?

2003-02-02 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. Just a minor clarification on the usage of halt/powerdown/shutdown. halt (and also reboot) calls shutdown to do the work in the common case, so there is no difference in using halt for the 08/15 user. powerdown is a link to halt and will act the same in the common case, i.e. run shutdown.

Re: [newbie] poor performance on software raid setup

2003-01-30 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2003-01-30 at 21:47:11 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] raid, I would get results around 387mb cache, and 45mb read. The settings I would use on these systems would be hdparm -X68 -c3 -d1 -u1 -m16. Now, when I ran hdparm in md9 (had to install, the distro didn't have it

Re: [newbie] Dell Optiplex

2003-01-28 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Tue 2003-01-28 at 01:55:33 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 17:38, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Anyone here managed to install Mandrake 9.0 upon a Dell Optiplex ? - If yes, what's your mileage / experience ? My reason for asking : I just contacted Dell Denmark and

Re: [newbie] MySQL users DB corrupted

2003-01-10 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2003-01-09 at 11:21:49 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a small problem where a power outage has corrupted the user database for mysql, now no users can authenticate/manipulate any databases hosted by the MySQL Engine... This is rather annoying since I am no longer able to

Re: [newbie] stupid newbie mozilla question about tabs

2002-12-30 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sun 2002-12-29 at 18:04:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:13 AM 12/30/2002 +0100, you wrote: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/moz_shortcuts.html#tabbed_browsing Helps muchly! Ty! You are welcome. Now how come when I go to a site Search I find nothing??? Tell me! :-)

Re: [newbie] stupid newbie mozilla question about tabs

2002-12-29 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Sun 2002-12-29 at 14:17:48 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Mozilla in winfucksme linux both. yet on neither can I find docs in their help files on tabbing by Keyboard. You might find this keyboard shortcut page helpful:

Re: [newbie] When is root not root?

2002-12-27 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hello. I am no security expert, read the following with that in mind. On Fri 2002-12-27 at 16:56:32 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 27 Dec 2002 3:16 pm, David Williams wrote: On Friday 27 December 2002 08:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Although I practically never log in as root, there are

Re: [newbie] When is root not root?

2002-12-27 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Fri 2002-12-27 at 19:03:04 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 27 Dec 2002 6:47 pm, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: [...] sudo is a nice way to make root access safer and its use is quite standard in Linux production environments. It allows to execute a single command as root like

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-09 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hello. On Sat 2002-12-07 at 17:17:19 +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 16:00, Mark Weaver wrote: [...] AND, dig this - those installations are going on the SAME machine - nothing changed. Nothing. Nada. The first five times I installed MDK on this workstation, I changed some

Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck off selling Mandrake

2002-12-09 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Fri 2002-12-06 at 09:00:09 -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday December 6 2002 07:17 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: If this person is burning copies off a set of disks and then selling them, isn't that illegal though? I mean I will (and have) burned a set of disks from my copy, then

Re: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page

2002-09-19 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2002-09-19 at 08:10:08 +0100, Alastair Scott wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 23:36, Franki wrote: I don't think the answer would be yes... By a strange coincidence a very interesting post from Thor Larholm (of the IE list) regarding Mozilla appeared on [bugtraq]. I reproduce it